Police, NGO, Health teams execute COVID-19 assessment response

Assistant Commissioner Andries-Junior Bonita Monitque among other members of the team with residents

Late last week, the Guyana Police Force through Regional Division 4-C teamed up with the United Bridge Builders Mission (UBBM) and the Ministry of Public Health to bring relief to several families across the division as part of a COVID-19 response operation for persons who have been self-isolating.

The response followed days of assessment which were done in the filed by the police, the NGO and the Ministry under their respective heads, namely Assistant Commissioner Andries- Junior, Bonita Monitque, and Dr. Hamilton.

After the assessment period was complete, the team returned to the respective communities with COVID-19 teaching materials, cleaning detergents, food hampers, footwear and toys for children who are expected to remain at home during this period.

This publication was told that the initiative saw the distribution of approximately two hundred and fifty hampers which benefited some four hundred families who were reached.

Business operators were also engaged and based on the feedback on the ground, both residents and business operators were receptive of the peep talks which were given to them by the team on the dos and don’t during this period of the coronavirus.

Golden Grove, Nabacalis, Clonbrook, Cove and John, Lusignan, Buxton, and other neighboring villages were among those targeted during the task force’s outreach.

“I am hopeful Guyana will truly smile again. Once we can dispel the myths and share pertinent facts in a simplified fashion, the average person would know how to protect themselves and family, creating safer communities and nation by extension, hope is still alive and we can beat this”  Bonita Monitque told BIG Smith News Watch.

The team on the day of the operation, however, wore masks as they interacted with the community and BIG Smith News questioned this posture. We were told the masks were necessary to prevent the team from coming into contact with persons who may be unknowingly affected by the COVID-19, hence the posture was more of a precautionary one.

Meanwhile, the United Bridge Builders Mission is calling for volunteers and persons who are in a position to provide food items, educational items, and even toys to keep the children in at this time to come forward so that similar exercises can be taken to other parts of the country